The Pirate Bay is Still Alive. IFPI&#39;s Site, Not So Much

As expected, some people are…less than enthusiastic about way The Pirate Bay’s trial ended. As a result of a seemingly coordinated action called Operation Baylout, the site of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) is being DDoSed; at the time of this writing, it’s not completely inaccessible but it’s definitely loading very slowly.

There are also reports that the IFPI site has been defaced by hackers, and that The Pirate Bay supporters are sending black faxes to IFPI’s fax machines in protest. Of course, most of these actions are illegal in many countries, so no one is openly taking responsibility for them; but as you can see in the discussions on irc channels at server anonnet.org, most visitors are supporting the actions against the IFPI.

The Pirate Bay is chirping happily, however. The four convicted admins have filed an appeal against the verdict of the district court, which proclaimed them guilty of “assisting in making copyright content available”. Until the verdict is confirmed at the Swedish Supreme Court, The Pirate Bay (whose servers aren’t located in Sweden, anyway) will probably stay functional. On the other hand, if the DDoS attacks continue, the websites of IFPI and RIAA might have to deal with a lot of downtime in the meantime.